Job 19:9

19:9 He has stripped me of my honor

and has taken the crown off my head. ¹ 

Job 29:20

29:20 My glory ²  will always be fresh ³  in me,

and my bow ever new in my hand.’

[19:9]  ¹ sn The images here are fairly common in the Bible. God has stripped away Job’s honorable reputation. The crown is the metaphor for the esteem and dignity he once had. See 29:14; Isa 61:3; see Ps 8:5 [6].

[29:20]  ² tn The word is “my glory,” meaning his high respect and his honor. Hoffmann proposed to read כִּידוֹן (kidon) instead, meaning “javelin” (as in 1 Sam 17:6), to match the parallelism (RQ 3 [1961/62]: 388). But the parallelism does not need to be so tight.

[29:20]  ³ tn Heb “new.”